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sible. The first battalion. Major Johnson, composed of the First, Sev- enth, Ninth and Sixteenth companies, of Providence, will drill Monday nights The second battalion, commanded by Major Nolan, consisting of the Second, Third, Tenth and Thirteenth com- panies, of Providence, will drill Wed- nesday nights. There are but three Providence companies in the fourth battalion, the Fourth, Fourteenth and Seventeenth. This battalion under the command of Major Arthur N. Nash, of Westerly, will drill on Tuesday nights. The other companies, not lo- cated in Providence will drill as here- tofore. In connection with the new order the major commanding have issued special orders calculated to make the drills of the utmost vauue and take advantage of every minute of the al- lotted time of an hour and a half. ### Arguments of counsel on bill and answer in the case of Isaac Ellis against Horace Swan were heard by Judge Barrows in the superior court for Providence county, Saturday. The counsel are Harry B. Agard for re- pondent and Harry P. Cross for plain- tiff. This is a case that was heard at a session of the court in Westerly and relates to a lease of some grainte property in the village of Bradford held by Horace Swan of Westerly, which Mr. Swan seeks to annul, claiming that the grainte quarry had not been worked by Mr. Swan al- though he claims to have legal lease of the property for a long term of years. Mr. Ellis claims that the ex- istence of this alleged lease inter- feres with the sale of the property. Assigned for trial on Tuesday in the same court are the old suits of Al- bert B. Crafts against the Mechanic Savings bank of Westerly, in process of liquidation, and also in a case against Ira B. Crandall, of Westerly, a director of the bank. White Rock is a blindless village, as of the many well kept houses, all own- ed by the mill company operating in the place, not one is supplied with window blinds except the cottage occu- pied by the superintendent. The houses are practically of the same style of architecture, are all painted white and are in good repair. But the sanitary conditions of the village are inade- quate, causing much complaint of the residents thereof. There is no system of water supply, and therefore no sew- erage system or anything pertaining thereto, and the water used for drinking and domestic purposes is taken from the wells that are all too near to cesspools and the like. For years the residents have been appeal- ing in vain for the extension of the Westerly water system to the White Rock section of the town, but the mill company is silent on the very impor- tant subject. The system has been extended to Watch Hill, Pleasant View and Week- apaug, all within the town of Wester- ly, and even to Pawcatuck, in the town of Stonington and state of Connecticut. The mill company, which practically owns the village of White Rock, has made no application for the service, which, to be effective, would carry with it guarantee of sufficient patron- age and financial encouragement to warrant the expenditure of construc- tien and maintenance.